Recently the Brown Daily Herald published the results of a campus poll in an article entitled “Students getting busy less often than their peers think.” The astounding results: most students are not sexually involved with a large number of partners. Even more astounding: these results still seem to surprise people.
Maybe I am the only one who has noticed, but the BDH publishes articles with this same topic at least once a semester. Guess what? The results are the same every time. Students have less sex than they tell you. No wonder Brown University is dropping in the national rankings – look at the students getting in. The BDH writers cannot find anything better to put in their newspaper than the same poll about sex time and time again, and the readers though seeing the same outcome a few months earlier, still are intrigued that their classmates are not the equivalent of James Bond in bed.
Maybe Brown could use these polls as a reason to cut back on all the excessive sexual counselors, intercourse info sessions, condoms, and other products offered at every corner of the school. And just for the fun of it, I am going to go out on a limb…I predict that next semester’s BDH poll will show that Brown students are less sexually active than the general perception.